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Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by Rohansi on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:34PM (#48140867)
> we are in 2026 and WPF is still the way to go IMHO.

Why not Avalonia? It's not Microsoft but it is a spiritual successor to WPF, cross-platform, and open source.

Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by dgellow on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:43PM (#48140968)
Sure, Avalonia is fine. I meant specifically Microsoft offering
Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by Rohansi on Thursday May 14, 2026 @10:25PM (#48143820)
Why limit yourself to Microsoft's offerings? They've dropped the ball on all of their UI frameworks I don't see why anyone would trust them to build software on. Give it a few more years and MAUI will join the list of abandoned UI frameworks and another one will pop up
Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by dgellow on Friday May 15, 2026 @05:39AM (#48146516)
I was specifically talking about my frustration with Microsoft. MAUI was indeed pretty much on arrival, what a waste of the Xamarin name…
Re:WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward by vrighter on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:17AM (#48148926)
That's the one I use now. But it still feels laggy to me.